Does anyone else think TFG is trying to lose on purpose? His actions just make no f***ing sense.

[Metaphorical]

56. I'm inclined to think it's a mix of both

There are more and more signs of dementia or Alzheimer's - at this stage there likely isn't all that much difference. It has not progressed to the stage where he no longer recognizes the people around him, but having lost a couple of relatives to Alzheimer's the signs are very much there. What's different is that he is also an extreme narcissist and a sociopath (the two are related, but not quite overlapping). He is also under extreme stress at the moment, especially since it's looking extremely likely that he's not even going to lose close enough to contest elections in key states.

I also think that his campaign is probably pretty much broke, and the funding promised is drying up as donors stop making payments.

Going for an all out assault with his followers is not really a strategy, it's a move of desperation, a Hail Mary, and its a step, that should they take it, will net them long prison sentences for all involved if that fails (and it would, because Biden has had ample time to prepare for it. It's not the strategy of a sane man.

Does he have the followers to pull it off? I rather doubt it. They will be angry if he loses, there may even be sporadic outbreaks of violence, but nothing that will be coordinated. Why? Because his chief supporters are either people that believe can influence him, or are people that tend to be lazy themselves. Partisans fight against oppressors when they realize that the oppressors will wipe them out otherwise (cf., Ukraine), yet I think that deep down, most MAGATs cannot actively imagine that the libruls will fight back, and as the dawning realization is made that we certainly will, they are likely to be MUCH less interested in fighting.